Is this the world's most expensive computer game? It's about trains and costs a loco £4,000-plus for the complete package.
For the same amount of money as a top-of-the-range gaming PC, trainspotters can pick up a copy of Train Simulator 17 - and all £4,439 worth of downloadable content.
The game charges players extra to drive other, real-life and fictional trains, as well as to pull into different stations.
The original game costs just £24.99, but with a few add-ons such as different coaches from £2.99. driving to Chatham rail station for £6.99 and driving simulated locomotives around Alaska for another £24.99 the costs of the mammoth game soon start to ramp up.
Web reviewers have slated the original game because there are not enough trains and tracks to play with, but with all the DLC - downloadable content - it becomes one of the largest and most immersive computer games ever.
Reviewer Omega wrote: "Only a few lines are open when you buy the game, with 2 or so locomotives.
"The environment isn't even nice to look at.
"That's not to mention the tons of DLC for different lines, stations, and locomotives!
"This game is absolute trash and a money grab."
Gamer SirZafer added: "I sold my wife for DLCs."
The game is currently being sold on Steam, which currently has 401 different pieces of add-on content for the title.
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